If a gaggle of geese is called geese, then why aren't a group of moose called meese?

Question

If a gaggle of geese is called geese, then why aren't a group of moose called meese? Surely that is something someone got wrong when naming animals?

Answer 1

The word 'goose' has a latin derivation, and hence follows Latin language rules for plurals. The word 'moose' is north American, and has no latin derivation, and so the plural is mooses, not meece.
In answer to a similar question, a biologist friend explained to me when we watching a flock of sacred ibis, that ibis is from the Greek, and so the plural is ibises, not ibi

Answer 2

The plural for a herd of moose is 'moose'. I thought that I was going to answer a serious zoology question.

Answer 3

If pro is the opposite of con, then is Congress the opposite of progress?

Just one of the quirks of the English language.

Answer 4

Thats not how the English language works

Answer 5

Duno. The English language is a funny thing.

Answer 6

just learn spanish and forget about it!

gag you if ask this again..lol

flock of birds...gaggle of geese, herd of moose, flock of sheep?? then what are sheep herders? should they be sheep flockers instead??

swarm of bees...nest of bees.... thats it stop the planet I want off.

Answer 7

Cause that's what a gaggle of mice are called.

Answer 8

no-one "got it wrong" mate, it's language/philology,
tain't no big deal. there's a moose loose aroond the hoose

Answer 9

to avoid confusion, or else you might think cheese is the plural of choose

Answer 10

isn't that the plural for a mouse? or is it meeses?? LOL